import base64
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
-from ..compat import compat_urllib_parse
 from ..utils import (
     ExtractorError,
     HEADRequest,
     sanitized_Request,
+    urlencode_postdata,
 )
 
 
 class HotNewHipHopIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'http://www\.hotnewhiphop\.com/.*\.(?P<id>.*)\.html'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.hotnewhiphop\.com/.*\.(?P<id>.*)\.html'
     _TEST = {
         'url': 'http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/freddie-gibbs-lay-it-down-song.1435540.html',
         'md5': '2c2cd2f76ef11a9b3b581e8b232f3d96',
                 r'"contentUrl" content="(.*?)"', webpage, 'content URL')
             return self.url_result(video_url, ie='Youtube')
 
-        reqdata = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode([
+        reqdata = urlencode_postdata([
             ('mediaType', 's'),
             ('mediaId', video_id),
         ])